Cheap tapes vs expensive CD's (Way off topic)

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Isn't it odd that when music is sold, CD's are MORE expensive than cassette tapes, even though you _know_ that the manufacturing cost of CD's is less?

Perceived value-add of digital recordings (more faithful reproduction, longer life, etc.). It is assumed that, over time, such discrepancies will diminish as more competition show up. Meanwhile, you get effects like the Chinese "stealing" American intellectual property for a song. Ern